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Google settles Google Assistant privacy lawsuit for $68 millionGoogle will pay $68 million to settle a lawsuit. The suit claimed its voice assistant spied on smartphone users. This violated privacy. Use...- India rolls back order to preinstall cybersecurity app on smartphonesIndia has withdrawn its order requiring smartphone makers to preinstall the government’s “Sanchar Saathi” cybersecurity app. The rule drew ...
- CCI says 'no inherent conflict or repugnancy' between competition, data protection lawsThis remarks are a part of the Competition Commission of India's order after levying a Rs 213.14 crore fine on the social media giant Meta ...
- ETtech Explainer: WhatsApp's standoff with Centre over end-to-end encryptionLast week, WhatsApp told the Delhi High Court that it would have to stop operations in India if it’s forced to break encryption for complia...
- Will examine WhatsApp’s breach of privacy, says MoS IT Rajeev ChandrasekharThe Centre will examine an alleged breach of privacy in which WhatsApp is said to be accessing and using the microphone feature of the smar...
- Meta reaches $37.5 million settlement of Facebook location tracking lawsuitMeta denied wrongdoing in agreeing to settle.
- ETtech Evening Briefing on 28 Jan. 2021: Top 5 Tech News, in 10 MinutesIt’s all happening today. All the Big Tech firms—WhatsApp, Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon—are in the news for their evolving machinatio...
- Snack Video, Zili, Resso and several others escape China apps banSnack Video is a Singapore-based app that is seen as a TikTok alternative and whose parent, Kuaishou Technology, is a popular Chinese softw...
- HC seeks Andhra Pradesh and Centre views on probing phone tapping chargesResponding to a petition filed by lawyer AN Grace on Tuesday, the court based in Amaravati asked the petitioner to furnish evidence that ph...
- 2nd digital strike targets clones of banned China apps, Google and Apple Inc directed to remove these appsGoogle and Apple Inc, which run popular mobile operating systems Android and iOS, respectively, were directed to remove these apps from the...
- New plea in Kerala HC against Aarogya Setu appThis is the second petition in the last one week against the government’s directive to compulsorily download the app for all public and pri...
- Corona alert! New smartphone app may warn when you come in contact with Covid-19 patientThe app will also ensure that it protects the privacy of Covid patients.
- No more eavesdropping: You can now disable human review of Alexa recordingsThe manual review practice by Amazon wasn’t previously disclosed in the product’s terms and conditions.
- Time runs out for TikTok downloads as Google, Apple remove social media app from storesThe app, popular among teenagers who use it to create and share short videos, was available on app stores of Google and Apple until Tuesday...
- Apple has written to resolve DND app issue, says Trai chief RS SharmaThe Trai has publicly made known its displeasure with Apple Inc, for not allowing Trai’s Do-Not-Disturb (DND) app to be listed on its App S...
- Forget Aadhaar, there's a bigger privacy risk you have already takenAadhaar has been badgered by critics due to privacy concerns and risk of data theft. But its detractors may have missed the elephant in the...
- Not violating India's privacy laws, user data fully safe: OppoOppo is the first company to officially comment after the government asked all handset makers that sell phones in India to share the securi...
- Indian startup SilverPush raises hackles in US over privacy violationThe advertising technology startup, backed by media industry veteran Ronnie Screwvala and others, has refuted the claim that it violates th...
- Why Google banned a privacy tool called 'Disconnect Mobile' from the android app storeIn the five days it was available in Google's store, it was downloaded more than 5,000 times, reports the Wall Street Journal, which broke ...
- New smartphone app detects mood swings via voice analysisA new app monitors subtle qualities of a person's voice during everyday phone conversations to detect early signs of mood changes in people...
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